Physician
Brigham and Women's Hospital

eric.garshick@channing.harvard.edu

Eric Garshick is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He is also a Staff Physician at the VA Boston Healthcare System Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine Section, and a Physician, Research Staff, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. He received a MD in 1979 from Tufts University School of Medicine, a Masters of Occupational Health (MOH) from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1984, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine. He has been a consultant of the US EPA Science Advisory Board, Clean Air Scientific Committee for Diesel Emissions. His research interests are the health effects of diesel exhaust exposure and the epidemiology of chronic lung disease. He is principal investigator of research grants funded by the National Cancer Institute to study the health effects of diesel exhaust in railroad workers and trucking industry workers, and a recipient of a VA grant to study respiratory disease in spinal cord injury.